metatarsus

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• It must also be noted that metatarsus adductus has an approximately 5% association with developmental hip dysplasia; therefore, these patients should always have a careful hip examination (Staheli, 2001).

  Academic text (2005)

• Metatarsus adductus is a common neonatal foot problem in which the forefoot is adducted and the lateral border of the foot is convex (curved).

  Academic text (2005)

• Nurses can have a key role in reinforcing the natural history and high percentage of spontaneous resolution of metatarsus adductus.

  Academic text (2005)

• It is often more difficult to convince parents and grandparents that flexible metatarsus adductus will spontaneously resolve.

  Academic text (2005)

• A clubfoot can easily be differentiated from metatarsus adductus by the hindfoot equinus.

  Academic text (2005)

• Metatarsus adductus differs from a clubfoot in that the heel or hindfoot is not in equinus.

  Academic text (2005)

• Oftentimes, the difficulty in treating newborns and infants with metatarsus adductus is not in treating the actual foot deformity.

  Academic text (2005)

• Neonates and infants with a stiff metatarsus adductus should be referred to a pediatric orthopaedic surgeon early, because the treatment is most successful when casting is started at less than 6 months of age.

  Academic text (2005)

• Surgical intervention is rarely indicated for metatarsus adductus and is only recommended in children older than 3 years with a rigid deformity that has not responded to manipulation and casting (Weinstein, 2000).

  Academic text (2005)

• For simplicity and to facilitate identification, congenital deformities in the foot can be classified into the following groups: toes pointing downward and/or inward: clubfoot, metatarsus adductus.

  Academic text (2005)

Compounds

V

vena metatarsus

• Specialized

9.3

A vein that carries blood from the middle part of the foot

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology